{"slug": "show-hn-tilefinch-a-from-scratch-web-browser-for-the-psp-333mhz-64mb-ram", "title": "Show HN: Tilefinch – a from-scratch* web browser for the PSP (333Mhz, 64MB RAM)", "summary": "A developer released Tilefinch, a from-scratch web browser that runs entirely on a PSP-3000 with a 333MHz processor and 64MB of RAM, handling networking, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, layout and rendering over Wi-Fi with no proxy or companion computer. Tilefinch uses new C code for its style, layout, paint, media and UI layers plus a patched QuickJS for JavaScript, and caps each page at a single 32MB budget covering DOM, JavaScript, CSS, images, layout and tiles. The browser renders logged-out ChatGPT responses, plays YouTube and HTML video through the PSP's hardware decoder at up to 360p, and supports Canvas 2D and WebGL 1 on the PSP's graphics chip, though some sites are too large and most pages render slowly.", "body_md": "I picked up my PSP for the first time in about a decade and wanted to find out three things: how far the hardware could be pushed, how much of the modern web fits on it, and what today’s coding agents can do. A web browser tests all three.\n\nTilefinch runs entirely on a PSP-3000: networking, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, layout and rendering, over Wi-Fi, with no proxy or companion computer. The style, layout, paint, media and UI layers are new C code and a patched QuickJS runs the JavaScript.\n\nEach page gets a single 32 MB budget covering DOM, JavaScript, CSS, images, layout and tiles.\n\nA few things that work: logged-out ChatGPT rendering a response; YouTube and HTML video through the PSP’s hardware decoder, at up to 360p; Canvas 2D and WebGL 1 on the PSP’s graphics chip (the repo includes a new 3D tank game as a demo). There's also modern browser features like Reader mode, dark mode, an ad blocker, language packs and in-app updates.\n\nHowever, some sites are too large (in which the browser offers a \"Basic\" mode) and most are slow to render.\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50046459](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50046459)\n\nPoints: 1\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-tilefinch-a-from-scratch-web-browser-for-the-psp-333mhz-64mb-ram", "canonical_source": "https://github.com/stjanovitz/tilefinch/tree/main", "published_at": "2026-10-11 18:47:29+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-11 19:02:55.648060+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools", "generative-ai"], "entities": ["Tilefinch", "PSP-3000", "QuickJS", "ChatGPT", "YouTube"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-tilefinch-a-from-scratch-web-browser-for-the-psp-333mhz-64mb-ram", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-tilefinch-a-from-scratch-web-browser-for-the-psp-333mhz-64mb-ram.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-tilefinch-a-from-scratch-web-browser-for-the-psp-333mhz-64mb-ram.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-tilefinch-a-from-scratch-web-browser-for-the-psp-333mhz-64mb-ram.jsonld"}}